Which are some of the best hospitals for heart valve replacement using leproscopy?

Question:

My mother is a resident of Tulsa, OK. It would be preferable to not have to travel too far for here surgery.

Answers:
Isn't there a Mayo Clinic somewhere in Arizona? They are supposed to be a good hospital. Try and find their website and see what they specialize in.

Other Answers:
There is the mayo clinic in Rochester Minnasota, and Duke Medical Center in North Carolina, I have heard that Duke Medical Center is the best hospital in the country when it comes to the heart. Those are the only two that I know of, but maybe if you contact the American Heart Assocation they might be able to give you a better idea, and more places to look into.

1. Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio) , best hospitals 2005 according to U.S.News & World Report
2. Mayo Clinic

3. Oklahoma Heart Hospital Leads Nation

Oklahoma City—The Oklahoma Heart Hospital is ranked in the top 1 percent nationally for patient satisfaction, and more than 1,100 heart surgeries were performed at the nation’s first all-digital hospital this past year.

For patients, that means better outcomes. According to the American Heart Association’s Circulation journal, as well as The New England Journal of Medicine, numerous studies show that the more procedures physicians do, the higher the success rates.

The Journal of the American Medical Association specifically states that “empirical evidence suggests that mortality rates for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery are lower in hospitals that perform a higher volume of the procedure…Higher-volume hospitals also had shorter average postoperative lengths of stay and fewer patients with extremely long stays.” Data over the past decade has continued to echo the finding that hospitals performing higher numbers of procedures have lower complication and mortality rates.

“We are performing more heart surgeries per surgeon than facilities such as Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic,” said Dr. Scott Lucas, an Oklahoma Cardiovascular Associates (OCA) and Oklahoma Heart Hospital cardiothoracic surgeon. According to 2002 Cleveland Clinic Foundation data, 14 surgeons at the Cleveland campus performed 3,825 surgery procedures (an average of 273 per surgeon in a year). With more than 1,100 performed this past year at the Oklahoma Heart Hospital, the average per surgeon is 366. In addition, Mayo Clinic has nine surgeons and performs about 2,500 heart surgeries every year (an average of 277 per surgeon).

“With Oklahoma ranking second in the nation in deaths due to cardiovascular disease, the need for the Oklahoma Heart Hospital is long overdue,” said Dr. Mark Bodenhamer, a member of OCA—the largest group of cardiovascular physicians in the state. “Here, our primary focus is hearts. We want to care for patients with heart problems and help educate them about living a heart-healthy life.”
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http://www.ocaheart.com/?p=%7BCC463292-6FAD-4C52-9D60-0C7A5A53C7D4%7D&sc=-1&ni=421&fr=news

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